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Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

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  1. Kim_Bruning · · focus · HN ↗
    Am I getting old? "full disk access" used to be something that's supposed to be normal; if you're the owner of the machine.
    1. VCFundedGenYer · · focus · HN ↗
      macOS has been revoking access to stuff like this over the past decade. Things like unfettered access to modifying the OS went away with Gatekeeper and System Integrity Protection. "root" access is no longer true root on any Mac, and the user is treated like a prisoner. The UAC-esque prompts that come up in macOS would make Vista-era MS so jealous.
      1. littlecranky67 · · focus · HN ↗
        root access is also no longer true root access on a lot of linux distros that are immutable, and container-esque like interfaces such as namespaces + cgroups also limit roots power.
        1. debazel · · focus · HN ↗
          Pointless comparison as you the user still have full control over all of that on Linux.
          1. littlecranky67 · · focus · HN ↗
            Pointless comment as the same holds true for macOS. Yes, you can load unsigned kext still, and yes, you can modify the userland. Not as easily, but I would argue it is also not harder as on an immutable linux distro.
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